How to Use passion play in a Sentence

passion play

noun

• My dad would even play Jesus in some of our passion plays in church.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
• The match was great theater, a passion play lasting more than three hours.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2022
• This made the duo think their downtime fun could be more than simply passion play.
  — Cassandra Girard, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2017
• For ten nights in Muharram these passion plays were performed with growing fervour.
  — The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
• Last year’s passion play was canceled for the first time in more than 30 years because of the pandemic.
  — Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
• The Iranian passion play is a recurring motif, both on the stage and in the streets.
  — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
• To watch an Andy Murray rant is to watch a passion play by and for the passive-aggressive.
  — Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
• Thinking of Ending Things, a riddle wrapped in an enigma and staged like a passion play.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• The only option is the passion play of the boardroom reality show.
  — Ari Schulman, The New Republic, 15 June 2020
• The altar fits into the overall vision for the show as a kind of passion play in which Carrie is sacrificed.
  — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 25 Feb. 2020
• In relatively good health at 69, Manning opted to roll all of the money over for a future trip to see the passion play.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
• Investing your time in a passion play for something meaningful may resonate with a potential employer.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• Brands that recognize this shift and approach sponsorships strategically (not as passion plays) will see the greatest returns.
  — Tracy Call, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
• Church leaders are hopeful that next year, the cathedral members will be able to have the live passion play, and Ovalle hopes for a more normal Good Friday, too.
  — Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Apr. 2021
• During Muharram a community group will often stage a passion play (taʿziyyah) that reenacts the events of Ḥusayn’s martyrdom.
  — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 May 2026
• The outcry set a pattern that has been repeated with depressing regularity in the decades since, a kind of passion play that entrenches resentments on every side.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2022
• As much of Latin America shuts down, Nicaragua has urged people to go to the beach, on holiday cruises and to Easter-season passion plays.
  — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 24 Apr. 2020
• This time, the Antetokounmpo situation is playing out as a passion play of passive aggression.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
• Their performances were both religious and profane, encompassing everything from passion plays to puppet shows to commedia dell’arte sketches.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
• The company works through churches to recruit customers for pilgrimages to the Holy Land, Europe and to see the Oberammergau passion play.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
• The author of A Thousand Ships and Stone Blind reimagines the Greek myth of Medea as a passion play, rife with domestic fury and murder most foul.
  — Hamilton Cain, Time, 3 Mar. 2026
• Planning ahead, many of the lines are already promoting cruises that will include premier seating at Oberammergau’s passion play in 2020 in Bavaria.
  — Ellen Uzelac, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• Even they’re relegated to little more than supporting players and symbolic representations of troubled youth straight out of a BBC kitchen-sink passion play.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
• The story transformed resistance to modernity into a passion play with the Jew as villain and, in so doing, helped make anti-Semitism a key feature of right-wing ideology in France.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2020
• For us as Jews, Easter has far more sinister overtones — of the passages from the Gospels that gave birth to modern antisemitism, of passion plays, pogroms, and emotional fuel for the literal fires that consumed our people.
  — Joshua Stanton, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
• With the easing of coronavirus restrictions, more people will have access to in-person church services on Easter Sunday, but the traditional Good Friday passion play will be virtual for one more year.
  — Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
• Once every 10 years, the villagers of Oberammergau, Germany, perform a passion play depicting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
• The script and lyrics, largely airlifted intact from an 1897 stage drama by the French playwright Charles Peguy, have the declamatory fervor of a passion play, with characters serving as philosophic mouthpieces rather than vessels of human drama.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
• His 1965 book Theatre in Iran provided a comprehensive study of the historical roots of Iranian theatrical genres like Naqali (Iranian storytelling), Kheimeh Shab Bazi (Iranian puppetry), Ta’zieh (passion plays) and Ruhowzi (comic folk drama).
  — Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019